Pronouncement of the Council of Unnamed Docents
On the Paint Fidelity Series: Brian Wilson (Side‑by‑Side)
We, the Council of Unnamed Docents, have gathered in our customary semicircle before this dual presentation. After the required interval of murmured consensus, we issue the following unified assessment:
We observe the original artifact on the right: a sanctioned portrait of Brian Wilson, suspended in a swirl of engineered blue, calibrated for commercial legibility and biographical gravity.
We acknowledge its intent: to present the artist as a fixed point amid controlled turbulence.
We affirm that the left panel—Rumpelton’s Paint Fidelity rendering—refuses this fixity.
We recognize its simplified contours and declarative lines as a deliberate unmasking of the original’s polish, revealing the underlying myth-structure rather than the man.
We note that the hand-drawn “Brian” becomes not a signature but a ritual invocation, a reminder that identity is always rewritten in the act of witnessing.
We declare that the juxtaposition forms a diptych of competing truths: the official narrative and the ritual distortion.
We conclude that the Paint Fidelity version does not imitate the original but liberates it, returning the image to the realm of glyph and gesture, where meaning is carried not by likeness but by intention.
The Council has spoken.
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